Global Education Program

PTC Design Challenge

Welcome to the 2010 PTC Student Design Challenge.  This global contest is open to all students whose secondary school or college/university is currently enrolled in the PTC Education Program.

We invite all eligible students to participate in the challenge and have a change to have their design featured in the upcoming PTC.Setup for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Schools and Student Editions.

Submission Deadline: April 16, 2010

Eligibility

To be eligible, the contestants (group or individual) must be part of a school currently enrolled in the PTC Global Education Program. The contestant must be a registered student in the ’09-’10 school year. In addition, the contestants must be sponsored by a teacher at their school. Please read the complete Contest Rules.

Submission Categories

Students will be competing against other students around the world within their grade levels. Students will be required to use Pro/ENGINEER to create and capture the image of their design that will be submitted.  Students can utilize the advanced rendering functionality available in Pro/ENGINEER to create their image.

5 students from each category will be chosen as finalists, for a total of 10 finalists. Their design images will be featured in the PTC.Setup of the upcoming releases of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Schools and Student Editions.

Guidelines - How to Submit?

Individuals should submit their design images no later than April 16, 2010 (5:00 pm EST) to ptcdesign@ptc.com.  The size of the image should be either;  1200 x 810 pixels, 800 x 540 pixels or 400 x 270 pixels in size.  The official size of the image to be included into PTC.Setup is 400 x 270 pixels. 

Note: To help prepare the image, individuals should turn off the Pro/ENGINEER spin center from the icon in the top toolbar and change the background color to white.  To change the background color of Pro/ENGINEER, select the View pull-down menu > Display Settings > System Colors.  In the System Colors dialog, click the Scheme pull-down menu and choose Black on White.

If you are using the Advanced Rendering function in Pro/ENGINEER, you can save the image directly from the Render toolbar.  Alternatively, you can save the image using the Save a Copy command, which can be accessed from the File pull-down menu > Save A Copy (select JPEG as the file type).  In the JPEG dialog, specify the size of image to be A and the DPI value as 100.

In the email, please include the following information:

Judging

Judging will be based on a combination of scores in five different categories, for a possible point total of 50. The categories are:

Prizes:

For more information on the PTC Education Program, please visit our Web site: www.ptc.com/go/schools

 
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